Joel gaefield of groton



. J. GARFIELD;

HAY SPREADER.

No 4,518. Patented May 7, 1867.

JOEL GARFIELD OF GROTON MASSACHUSETTS.

LettersPatent'No. 64,518, dated'lllay 7, 1867.

' IMPROVEMENT IN-HAY-SPREADERS.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY ooNcEaNL Be it known that I, JOEL GARFIELD,'of Groton, in the county ofMiddlesex, and State of Massachusetts,

have invented an improved Hay-Tedding Machine; and I do hereby declare that the following, taken in connec- 'tion with the drawings which accompany and form part of this SpeeifiatI'om-is a description of: my invention sufficient to enable those skilled in the art .to practise it.

The invention relates to the construction and arrangement and mechanism ofthat. class of teddingmachinesf in which the teeth act by rotation around a common axis'oraxial line, and have, in addition to their rotary motion, an elliptical or sweeping-forward movement asthey operate upon the grass orv hay. The invention consists in mounting the rotary and eccentrically-moiving forks or teeth in an openframe, in such manner-that in their operation they not free from any stripping surface.

i The drawings represent a machine embodying my invention, A showing a rear elevation, and B asection between twoadjacent sets of forks. a den'otesthe wagon or trunk-frame to which .the tedding mechanism is. applied, and b the wheels ofthe same. On the rear part of thisframe are brackets or bearings, a, supporting 'a stationary shaft, d, around each end of which is a rotary tubular shaft, c, .upon the inner end of each of which tubular shafts. is a loosely-revolving head, f, radial arms '9 of which are connected together by shafts, h, as

seen in the drawings, the shafts h and heads making up the frame for supporting the forks, this frame revolving loosely upon the shafts c in one direction, but rotating with such shafts e in the other direction.v Just inside of each head f the stationary shaft (Z has a crank-arm, 2', the outer ends of these arms 'being con-' nected by the central part of the stationary shaft, thisflcentral part.(which, for convenience, may be called the crank or dead-centre shaft: 17,) being. thus eccentric with the shafts: 2, upon which theheads frotate. Along this shaft (an.d w ith their inner ends turning thereupon) are placed arms Z, extending towards the-shafts 71:, each of which arms is jointed at its outer end to a loop or extension, m, of a'forlg, it-ylnountedancl turning on the shaft it. Each fork-loop 111 extends out from the shaft to which the fork is attached towards the direction' of revolution of the shaft, and as the shafts h revolve eccentric-ally tothe stationary crank shaft 76,31 will i be obvious that by the revolution of each shaft it around. the crank-shaft 7:, from its nearest "position to said latter shaft, around the shaft 7:: and back .to such position, the connection of each arm Zimparts to the fork I (in addition to rotary moveincntla sweeping-forward movement during the first half of its revolution, and a back or retrograde movement-to its first positionduring the latter half of its; revolution. .lVhen each shaft 72. is nearest to the shaft 70 (which is when its forks are uppermost) the points of these forks lie back towards the next shaft In and as the shaft it rotates the forksare thrown outwards, so that when operating upon-the hay or grasstheystand nearly radially or pointed towards the grass, and with an advancing or an accelerated motion, which causes them to catch and lift the hay as desired, while, as theyprogress in' their rotation, they" fall back again towards the next shaft behind, and thus are caused to drop the hay.

Now I am aware'of the construction or proposed construction of a machine'in which the teeth or forks have an accelerated motion given to them, or a motion in addition to their revolving motion, by means of a shaft eccentric to the .axis of rotation of the forks, but in such machine a cylinder or drum is employed to strip the grass from the teeth, while in my machine I mount the forks in an open frame, thereby dispensing with a drum, simplifying the machine, and making it. practically eflicient. The rotationis imparted to the system of forks as follows: Each tubular shaft e has a pinion, 0, which meshes into and is'driven by. an internal gear, 1), fixed to each wheel b. The tubular shaft is connected to the head f by apawl or clutch mechanism, so that as the rotation of the wheels in the forward movementof the carrie eturns the pinions, the heads are also turned, and with thenr the forks, while in backing the carriage the pawl slips over the teeth of the clutch-wheel without imparting rotary movement thereto. By slipping the penis out from the teeth the carriage is driven either forwards or back without rotating the forks; 4 p I claim, in combination with the rotating heads and forks, and the stationary shaft is, placedeccentrieally to the axis of rotation of such heads, the shafts'h, armsl, and loops m, when arranged to operate substantially as described.

.ioEL GARFIELD.

Witnesses:

F. GoULn,' L. H. Lumen. 

